Barack and Michelle Obama spotted on cozy date night at LA hotspot
Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were spotted enjoying an intimate dinner at a trendy Los Angeles restaurant on Saturday.
Exclusive photos obtained by DailyMail.com captured a relaxed-looking Barack and smiling Michelle as they left the ultra-chic Mother Wolf restaurant, a celebrity hotspot that has become a magnet for the Hollywood elite, after a nice dinner together.
Michelle, radiant in a silk top and knit cardigan, smiled broadly as the couple emerged from the restaurant, surrounded by a protective detail of Secret Service agents.
Barack, looking calm and collected, walked close to his wife as waiting fans and admirers crowded around him.
The quiet outing follows a chaotic election season in which the Obamas faced withering criticism from unexpected sources.
Just last month, Barack’s own biographer, Pulitzer Prize winner David Garrow, provided a bold assessment of the couple’s political missteps.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Garrow accused the former First Couple of “talking down” to voters and delivering “tone-deaf and ignorant” messages that could potentially damage Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.
Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were spotted enjoying an intimate dinner at a trendy Los Angeles restaurant on Saturday
Exclusive photos obtained by DailyMail.com captured a relaxed-looking Barack and smiling Michelle as they left the ultra-chic Mother Wolf restaurant, a celebrity hotspot that has become a magnet for the Hollywood elite, after a cozy dinner together
Michelle, beaming in a silk top and knit cardigan, flashed a big smile as the couple emerged from the restaurant, surrounded by a protective detail of Secret Service agents.
The biographer even went so far as to suggest that the criticism could diminish Barack Obama’s political relevance to the “Bill Clinton level.”
“People don’t want to be treated down, no matter who they are,” the 71-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner said.
“I thought it was tone deaf and they had no idea to preach the way they did,” he told DailyMail.com.
‘I expect that that perception will be shared by many people. If so, I think it diminishes its relevance to Bill Clinton territory.”
Garrow wrote the biography Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama in 2017. He won his Pulitzer for an earlier book about Martin Luther King.
He predicted that the Obamas will now largely disappear from the political scene to hang out with celebrities on Martha’s Vineyard.”
Garrow said the electoral defeat has made Obama, 63, “nervous” about the impact Trump could have on how he is perceived by future generations.
“He remains extremely concerned and nervous about his historical legacy,” he said.
“That has certainly taken a big hit, now that Trump is victorious again.”
Barack, looking calm and collected, walked close to his wife as waiting fans and admirers crowded around him
One of the cornerstones of Obama’s political legacy is the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which made health insurance accessible to millions of people and banned denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions.
Obama is very aware of Trump’s repeated attempts to repeal the law.
Trump issued an executive order in 2017 to reverse this, but failed to get the plan through Congress.
He called the act “crappy” and said he was working to replace it during his presidential debate with Harris in September.